Hugo: 1509 books

This is the fifth volume of Victor Hugo's 1862 French historical novel, “Les Misérables”. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, it chronicles the lives of several characters, focusing on ex-convict Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption. It constitutes a profound...

This ebook compiles Victor Hugo's greatest writings, including novels, short stories, essays, plays and poems such as "The Hunchback of Notre Dame", "Les Misérables", "A Fight with a Cannon", "Hernani", "Marion de Lorme", "Autumn Leaves"...

Victor Hugo, in full Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: ; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist who was the most well-known of all the French Romantic writers. In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and...

This is the second volume of Victor Hugo's 1862 French historical novel, “Les Misérables”. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, it chronicles the lives of several characters, focusing on ex-convict Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption. It constitutes a profound...

This is the third volume of Victor Hugo's 1862 French historical novel, “Les Misérables”. Considered to be one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century, it chronicles the lives of several characters, focusing on ex-convict Jean Valjean's struggle for redemption. It constitutes a profound...

Ce livre est une oeuvre unique il débute par une biographie détaillée et illustrée de Victor HUGO .Il s'accompagne d'une de ses œuvres :  "RUY BLAS" . AUTEUR : Victor Hugo est un poète, dramaturge, prosateur et dessinateur romantique français, né à Besançon le 26 février...

“Under Sentence of Death - Or, a Criminal's Last Hours” is a fictional account of the trial and sentencing of a man that ultimately leads to his death. A thought-provoking insight to a criminal's last moments, “Under Sentence of Death” is not to be missed by fans of Hugo's work, and it would...

Richard Hugo has been described by Carolyn Kizer as "one of the most passionate, energetic, and honest poets now living." Nowhere has that passion, energy, and honesty been more evident than in ?White Center, his newest volume of poems. "That Richard Hugo's poetry creates in...

In 1838 Hugo began a play entitled Les Jumeaux (The Twins), but halfway through the third act he relinquished it, and the drama remained unfinished. It was finally published in 1889, as a fragment, after his death. The MS. was broken off with the words, "Interrompu le 28 Aout par la maladie ";...

In an essay on Richard Hugo, the poet James Wright called him “one of the precious few poets of our age . . . who has, and sustains, an abiding vision.” Hugo took that vision to Skye with him: he makes Scottish history, legends, and “triggering towns” his own in these new poems, just as he...

Hugo Münsterberg's The Photoplay (1916) is one of the first and most important early works of film theory. Münsterberg's work on the emerging art of cinema remains a key document for film scholars, but it has long been out of print. In this new edition, Allan Langdale provides a critical introduction to the seminal text and collects numerous hard-to-find writings on film by Münsterberg.

Emprisonné pour avoir volé du pain, Claude Gueux finira condamné à mort après avoir tué à coup de hache le directeur de sa prison. Basé sur des faits réels, Claude Gueux est un court texte incisif et puissant dans lequel Hugo, cinq ans après la parution du réquisitoire abolitionniste Le Dernier...

For most of his life, Victor Hugo (1802-1885) was the most famous writer in the world. His legacy includes the nineteenth century's most celebrated works of drama, fiction, memoir, and criticism. But in his day Hugo was know foremost as a poet-indeed the greatest French poet of the age. He wrote with...

This volume contains Victor Hugo's 1833 historical play, “Mary Tudor”. It portrays the rise, fall, and eventual execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England (1516-1558). Fabiani is incarcerated within the Tower of London and remains there until his death, despite the...